I'd like to make some custom wallpapers that will be compatible with every Android phone, can someone tell me what size they should be? Thanks.
That depends. Clicky
Could I just design them at a very high resolution, and they would scale down and still look good for phones with smaller resolutions?
I generally use computer wallpapers since the phone prompts you to crop & scales down accordingly. However, a lot of people notice better quality when using the correct size. I have cropped and resized all of my wallpapers to the correct size for my device (960x800) because I'm a wallpaper junkie. I have noticed that most people have a 480x800 display, which will use a wallpaper of 960x800 (twice the length, same height to allow for scrolling). Usually wallpapers made for Android - like the ones that come in wallpaper packs - are sized to 960x800. Newer devices are coming out with higher quality displays, and those with HTC Sense 3.0 don't have scrolling wallpaper, so 960x800 isn't future-proof. I would suggest making the wallpapers in a larger resolution, and offering both the high resolution to crop & scale, and an already resized version to 960x800 for the majority of current Android users.
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What should be the wallpaper dimensions for a good looking wallpaper?
960x800 if im not mistaken.
Ideally you want 960x800.
A tip for farming the vast oasis that is Google Image Search for wallpapers. Not very many wallpapers come in 960x800 sizes....but there are tons at 1280x1024 and that is the closest of the standard "desktop" type wallpapers in aspect ratio (960x800 is 1.20, while 1280x1024 is 1.25) to our screen requirements.
So you can batch re-size tons of existing 1280x1024 wallpapers with very little image distortion, or if you do keep aspect ratio's intact you end up trimming very little. The market app Wallpaper Set And Save will auto-resize 1280x1024 correctly for us as well if you want to be lazy and not batch resize images before transferring them to the phone.
Just a handy tip or two...
Anyone found a good place to find wallpapers of the correct size?
I haven't found a site that has the wallpapers tailor made to our resolution but, interfacelift.com has enough resolution options to satisfy me. I love their wallpapers. They have a lot of photography content, which is beautiful stuff.
Check it out.
the resolution for the screen is 540x960 right?
Yes but that isn't too important because you can crop a selected area. I pick the higher res Android tablet ones and just scale it to fit. Don't worry so much about the resolution because it doesn't mean squat. Pick a higher resolution, set as background, crop the area when it asks, done.
How do you make the best possible wallpapers for the X2?
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How do you make the best possible wallpapers for the X2?
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I'd be interested in the answer to your question, but if you want some good wallpaper while you are waiting, make sure you are searching for qHD wallpapers for other qHD phones, such as the Atrix.
Alternately, you can search for a specific size image with google image search online. Standard is twice the width, by the height of your screen.
qHD = 540x960
Wallpaper = 1080x960
Good luck making your own.
What I do is take an image that has a higher pixel size than what our screen has and crop it to 1080 x 960. The thing is, it doesn't get as sharp as I'd like. I feel like it should be super sharp. Icons are super sharp, why not the wallpaper, ya know. Does it have something to do with the screen itself?
Using the size parameters mentioned in the previous posts you can use photoshop or gimp (free!) and create your own custom wallpapers.
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I noticed when viewing an image in the gallery and zooming it in to the size of the screen the picture is crystal clear, but when you set it as a wallpaper it gets a little pixelated so we know its not the hardware or picture itself. Could someone explain this, maybe the software could be tweaked? Try it out, the attached picture is a good example but it does it with all pictures.
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What happens is that android compresses the pictures too much when setting them, causing distortion. Using an app called "Wallpaper Set And Save" sets the wallpaper and makes it crystal clear!
the screen size of the mini pro is 320x480 and when I download a wallpaper (of the same size) and look at it in with the gallery app, it fits my screen exactly. but when I then want to set it as my wallpaper with gallery, apparently I can only use a part, at maximum half of it as max size? how come? how can I get wallpapers to be properly displayed at their full screen size?
Wallpapers need to be wide enough to cover 3 homescreens - due to the scrolling. It does not scroll more than 3 screens regardless of actual # of homescreens on your phone.
Therefore your wallpaper should be 960 x 480 for full coverage (3 x 320 by 480). Took me a while to work that out myself
thanks for letting me know
but then I wonder why people upload so many wallpapers with just the size for 1 screen?
edit: now Ive read that the best size is actually supposed to be 640x480, because apparently it doesnt move that far when scrolling
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edit: now Ive read that the best size is actually supposed to be 640x480, because apparently it doesnt move that far when scrolling
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Erm.. yeah you're quite correct... but the principle was good
Thank's Good Info
Hello, what's the corret size for JB sammy ROM wallpapers. Most pitures I download for 480x800 need to crop to half height which also makes image very low quality because it's resized then to match TWUI sizes. So what are optimal resolution or ratio I should download for wallpaper?
Also it's not scrolling, like does on Apex/Nova launchers, so it's very limited and IMO regress to ICS ROMs.
Wallpaper size hasn't changed from ICS to JB because the resolution of the screen has remained the same since the phone was released.
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found 800x667 is correct size, still cropped but just a little